Gay Lea

Gay Lea Foods Co-operative Limited is a dairy products co-operative in Canada producing butter, sour cream, cottage cheese, whipped cream and lactose free milk for retail, foodservice, industrial and export markets. Gay Lea also produces a new product called "Spreadables", which is a spreadable butter, made as a canola oil and butter blend, that tastes like butter but is spreadable directly out of the fridge.

Founded in 1958 as United Dairy and Poultry Co-operative Limited and later re-named for the brand name of its highly respected, market-leading products, Gay Lea Foods Co-operative Limited is based in Mississauga, Ontario and owned and operated by Ontario milk producers, currently representing approximately twenty-five per cent of all Ontario dairy farms.

Operations

* Mississauga, Ontario - Head Office.
* Weston, Ontario - Main distribution centre and cultured products plant.
* Weston, Ontario - UHT pasteurized milk and cream processing plant.
* Guelph, Ontario - Milk powder processing plant, creamery, spreadable butter and aerosol whipped topping operations.
* Teeswater, Ontario - Milk and cream collection plant and creamery and retail outlet.

Products

* Nordica Cottage cheese
* Nordica Single Serve Cottage cheese
* Lacteeze Milk
* Gay Lea Spreadable Butter Blend
* Gay Lea Butter
* Gay Lea Sour Cream
* Gay Lea Sour Cream Dip
* Gay Lea Real Whipped Cream

External links

* [http://www.gaylea.com/ Gay Lea]